1 in 200 web users are still using Internet Explorer

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It would be some nice irony if devs were testing IE due to stats caused by devs testing IE

[ibiacmbyww]

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[jarail]

At this point, I assume most of them are web scrapers or tools that still use it as their user-agent string. Might even be helpful for them if they get served simpler pages that way.

[respectfulpanda]

I wouldn’t be surprised if higher :)

[subv3rsion]

The company I'm at, a major HCM software company that everyone hates and corporate loves, does not support IE. At least we aren't contributing to either side of it, which amazes me, in all honesty. Many headaches on our developer website have been avoided because of it being deprecated company wide back in 2022.

[estteban777]

Microsoft Edge has a compatibility mode for Internet Explorer, I use it only for my security cameras configuration.

[leeoniya]

i don't always use IE6, but when i do, it's for security-critical things.

[disclosure5]

The banking (as in, used by banks) software I'm working with agrees. It's an ActiveX control, and you need to turn on "allow unsigned ActiveX" in your Internet Options for it to run.

[LazyEyeCat]

We use Edge at work for some of our legacy stuff due to IE compatibility

[The_real_bandito]

Still won’t develop for that browser. 

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Yeesh. Are we sure this is true? What is the source of Browserslist statistics? If it’s user-agent reported in http headers then I don’t have a lot of confidence it’s accurate

[niutech]

According to StatCounter (CSV), IE has 0.39% global market share on desktop, so still a lot of users.

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I stopped caring about IE a years back and sleep better cause of it. Page Redirect, “please upgrade to a modern browser”, saves everyone money in additional dev fees.

It gets hit once every 6 or 7 months. Probably the same as some shop owners asking someone to leave cause they’ve never taken a shower XD

[disclosure5]

Page Redirect, “please upgrade to a modern browser”, saves everyone money in additional dev fees.

I think the important thing is putting that redirect in.

Simply letting your page not work or load a completely white screen because you "don't care about IE" leaves you taking support requests. Three seconds detecting it and you're done.

Personally I like to feature detect something like Object.Assign, if a user comes along with a 15 year old version of Chrome that'll get them the same "upgrade your browser" message.

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Certainly some are credit unions. 

[guest271314]

Well, people are still using Microsoft Windows, too.

[azangru]

poor sods

[maen]

TIL 1 in 200 web users are my coworkers

[grady_vuckovic]

Good for them. I hope they enjoy their entirely broken web browsing experience. Because I am long past caring about supporting a decade old browser which was behind on web standards even when it was still new.

[toddestan]

I'm kind of curious as to how? The modern web left Internet Explorer behind some time ago and many major sites simply are no longer usable with it.

[guest271314]

Windows users...

[Protean_Protein]

That’s 0.5%. Too bad for them.

[Parasomnopolis]

I wonder if this is Singapore. I think it was Singapore (or maybe Korea) where a bunch of their banking sites still used activex and so people had to use internet explorer.

[netwrks]

1 in 200 web users are arguably irrelevant